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Developmental features of sleep electrophysiology in family dogs

Scientific Reports, 2021
Age-related differences in dog sleep and the age at which dogs reach adulthood as indexed by sleep electrophysiology are unknown. We assessed, in (1) a Juvenile sample (n = 60) of 2–14-month-old dogs (weight range: 4–68 kg), associations between age ...
Vivien Reicher, Nóra Bunford, Anna Kis, Cecília Carreiro, Barbara Csibra, Lorraine Kratz, Márta Gácsi   +6 more
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Acquisition and long-term memory of object names in a sample of Gifted Word Learner dogs

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
Dogs with a vocabulary of object names are rare and are considered uniquely gifted. In a few cases, these Gifted Word Learner (GWL) dogs have presented cognitive skills that are functionally similar to those of human infants.
Shany Dror, Ádám Miklósi, Andrea Sommese, Andrea Temesi, Claudia Fugazza   +4 more
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A citizen science model turns anecdotes into evidence by revealing similar characteristics among Gifted Word Learner dogs

Scientific Reports, 2023
Dogs that have a vocabulary of object labels (Gifted Word Learner dogs—GWL dogs) have great potential as a comparative model for studying a variety of cognitive mechanisms. However, only a handful of studies, with a small sample size of 1 or 2 dogs, have
Shany Dror, Ádám Miklósi, Andrea Sommese, Claudia Fugazza   +3 more
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Turbidity influences individual and group level responses to predation in guppies, Poecilia reticulata [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Increasing turbidity (either sedimentary or organic) from anthropogenic sources has significant negative impacts on aquatic fauna, both directly and indirectly by disrupting behaviour.
Kimbell, Helen S., Morrell, Lesley, Morrell, Lesley J.   +2 more
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Out-of-reach rewards elicit human-oriented referential communicative behaviours in family dogs but not in family pigs

Scientific Reports, 2023
Human-oriented referential communication has been evidenced not only in domestic but also in some wild species, however, the importance of domestication-unrelated species’ characteristics in the emergence of this capacity remains largely unexplored.
Paula Pérez Fraga, Boglárka Morvai, Linda Gerencsér, Fanni Lehoczki, Attila Andics   +4 more
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‘O sibling, where art thou?’ – a review of avian sibling recognition with respect to the mammalian literature [PDF]

, 2004
Avian literature on sibling recognition is rare compared to that developed by mammalian researchers. We compare avian and mammalian research on sibling recognition to identify why avian work is rare, how approaches differ and what avian and mammalian ...
Barnard C. J., Barnard C.J., Barnard C.J., Bateson P., Bateson P., Beecher I. M., Blaustein A. R., Boyse E. A., Brown J. L., Burger J., Byers J. A., Catchpole C. K., Colgan P., Cramp S., Cramp S., Davis L. S., Dawkins R., Dewsbury D. A., Evans R. M., Farabaugh S. M., Ferkin M. H., Fletcher D. J. C., Fletcher D.J. C., Fuller C. A., Gamboa G. J., Gottlieb G., Halpin Z. T., Hamilton W. D., Hare J. F., Hare J. F., Hepper P. G., Hepper P. G., Hepper P. G., Hoglund J., Holmes W. G., Holmes W. G., Holmes W. G., Johnsgard P. A., Johnsgard P. A., Kroodsma D. E., Lenington S., McGregor P. K., McShea W. J., Medvin M. B., Miller D. E., Mock D. W., Murie J. O., Nowak R. M., Palestis B. G., Palestis B. G., Pfennig D. W., Pierotti R., Porter R. H., Porter R. H., Porter R. H., Radesater T., Schimmel L., Schubert C. A., Sherman P. W., Sherman P. W., Shields W. M., Shields W. M., Slater P.J. B., Stacey P. B., Stoddard P. K., Trainer J. M., Waldman B., Wilson E. O., Wilson E. O., Zann R. A.   +69 more
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EFFECTS OF SEX, ENVIRONMENT, AND CONDITION ON THE MUSKING BEHAVIOR OF SYMPATRIC GARTERSNAKES (THAMNOPHIS SPP.) [PDF]

, 2014
Despite an abundance of studies documenting antipredator and defensive behaviors of gartersnakes (genus Thamnophis), few have quantitatively examined musking, a widely utilized antipredator tactic.
Bertolatus, David, Gagliardi-Seeley, Jennifer L., Gangloff, Eric, Reigel, Christopher   +3 more
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Separation-related behavior of dogs shows association with their reactions to everyday situations that may elicit frustration or fear

Scientific Reports, 2021
Separation related disorder in dogs is a multi-faceted phenomenon. Dogs can react to the absence of their owner due to different inner states such as fear, panic or frustration.
Rita Lenkei, Tamás Faragó, Viktória Bakos, Péter Pongrácz   +3 more
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Warfare, Ethics, Ethology

Journal of Big History, 2018
The aim of this article is to set a macro-historical narrative concerning the emergence of warfare and social ethics as symplesiomorphic features in the lineage of Homo sapiens.
Daniel Barreiros
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Prey body size mediates the predation risk associated with being "odd" [PDF]

, 2014
Despite selection pressures on prey animals to maintain phenotypically homogeneous groups, variation in phenotype within animal groups is commonly observed.
Downing, Beatrice, Morrell, Lesley J., Rodgers, Gwendolen M.   +2 more
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